One must presume that long and short arguments contribute to the same end. - Epicurus...except casandra's that belong to the funniest, most interesting and imaginative (or over-imaginative?) ones, I suppose.

oooh..The Pit and The Pendulum is a very good guess (very horrifying )...so it's not about dying, torture...probably not supernatural as well and if closer to Bob's guess Frankenstein- then it has to be about monsters...one very obvious guess is Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide...

“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and the sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”

One must presume that long and short arguments contribute to the same end. - Epicurus...except casandra's that belong to the funniest, most interesting and imaginative (or over-imaginative?) ones, I suppose.

Thomas Jefferson? The Declaration of Independence? That's late 18th century I think.... most of his writings on religious freedom would be during that time....and moral philosophy and liberalism in the early 19th....but still, nope...not correct...ooooh.....can't wait for spring...

Walt Whitman then perhaps (Leaves of Grass or Democratic Vistas?)
Yeats or Waldo Emerson didn't wrote such stuff as far as I know...Emerson anyway not in 19th century...

One must presume that long and short arguments contribute to the same end. - Epicurus...except casandra's that belong to the funniest, most interesting and imaginative (or over-imaginative?) ones, I suppose.